As a freshman at Reagan High, Anna Howerton wasn’t sure she wanted to play on the high school golf team. But her father gave her a nudge. “My dad wanted me to play,” Howerton recalled. As it turned out, Howerton’s dad probably saved himself a lot of money. His daughter has earned a scholarship to…
The cofounder and operator of Golf Gem, Jonathan Dudley has taken a unique role at Forest Oaks Country Club and steered in perhaps, a surprising direction. A former GolfTec manager and head professional at Mill Creek and The Valley (formerly Indian Valley), Dudley wanted to return his focus to golf instruction. Dudley, who moved from…
Enjoying the comforts of a luxury box at the Wyndham Championship is no longer reserved for corporate sponsors and their lucky guests. Now, Wyndham and the annual PGA Tour event at Sedgefield Country Club are making it easy by offering Wyndham Rewards Earner Card holders with a grounds pass a free upgrade to a 17th green…
The highly acclaimed Winston-Salem course closed April 16 to make several structural improvements, including the change of the surfaces of the undulating greens from bentgrass to bermudagrass Tif-Eagle. The club will also complete installation of the Better Billy Bunker system in its 80 sand bunkers, improve cart paths and complete other updates around the course…
Ron Fobes scoots around the Maple Chase Country Club golf course faster than anyone else without leaving tracks or any trace of evidence on the tees, fairways or rough. The Maple Chase member is an authorized dealer of Phat Rides, selling scooters easily adaptable for golf course. An emerging product, Phat Rides scooters weigh less…
SUMMERFIELD – First Responders of the Triad Inc. has donated $18,000 in proceeds from the 2022 First Responders of the Triad Pro-Am Golf Tournament at Greensboro National Golf Club to the Rockingham County Sheriffs’ Office. The Sheriffs’ Office intends to use the donation for the purchase of a trained Belgian Malinois for its K9 Unit.…
Brown said that GreatLife and Sapona club members wanted to begin the relationship with GreatLife managing the course as “sort of a dry run” toward ownership. GreatLife intends on purchasing the club and investing around $500,000 in the property in 2024, CEO John M. Brown told Triad Business Journal on Monday, January 30, 2023. Sapona…
Ryan Wilson is the new CEO of the First Tee – Central Carolina, the organization where he started his professional career in 2011. Wilson, who played golf at High Point Central High and High Point University, worked with the local First Tee organization from 2011 until 2015. “I’m so thankful to be stepping into this…
Summerfield, NC, January 30, 2023/ Press Release / — Greensboro National Golf Club, LLC is pleased to announcethat Bruce Mohler has become the new General Manager of Greensboro National Golf Club, effective January23, 2023.Mohler has 28 years of golf club management experience and golf operations knowledge and joins the club fromJacksonville Beach, Florida, where he…
By David Droschak I asked Chip Watson the other day for the key ingredients as to why the Golf School at North Carolina State has enjoyed such a successful run as it enters its 34th consecutive year this June. Sure he and co-founder and former N.C. State men’s golf coach Richard Sykes have for the…